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Thursday, Oct 09, 2003
Dr. Paul's Fabulous Self-Financing Debacle
I can't find the transcript from March. Perhaps this was said during a closed session. But Senator Carl Levin reminds Wolfowitz of the "rosy scenario" during Wolfowitz's September 9th appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
previous in series of Dr. Paul's Words of Wisdom
tip o' the hat to Disinfotainment Today
The Simpsons
The syndication schedule for The Simpsons is currently cycling through the first season of the stand-alone show. (Some of us got a first glimpse of these characters in a series of shorts on the Tracy Ullman show.)
The cast, the characters themselves and the town of Springfield develop quite a bit over the first season. For example, Homer has a bit of Walter Matthau in his voice, but that characteristic seems to fade over time. The early animation style is a little more out of control, but not as wild as during the Ullman years.
Inside the Actor's Studio recently aired an episode with the principal voice actors from The Simpsons. For some reason it's very funny to watch the actual people making those voices. The show is stored on the Tivo in "save until I delete" mode. Watching Dan Castellaneta in action gives me greatly improved insight in mimicking Homer's voice. D isn't sure that's a good thing.
Terry Gross v. Bill O'Reilly
Pity poor little Billy, who got beat up by a girl. Boo hoo.
Bill, who's used to playing the "cut the mike" game lauched a tirade against Terry Gross during a Fresh Air interview and pulled the plug before Terry could respond. In the abreviated version of the interview on Bill's site, one gets to hear Bill's attempt to take over the interview, followed by Bill's pussilanimous belly aching, followed by Bill running to find his teddy bear. Of course, Bill would never play the game of personal attack, but on his teevee show "The Factor" he relishes that he "told her off". Very nice, Billy. Can't win on logic, so you resort to a temper tantrum.
The Gropenator
A man backed by a $23 million production effort and former Governor Pete Wilson's political machine posed as an "outsider", as a one of "the people". And Californians bought it.
By the way, Pete brought energy deregulation to California. Thanks a lot Pete. That worked out really well! And welcome back.
A California senator summed it up as: Californians were looking for an action hero to save the day. Given that the most coherent policy statement from Arnold was "We're not going to take it", that senator pegged it well.
In about 12 months, Californians may come to realize that Arnold's voodoo economics are as bankrupt as Reagan's were. He proposes to lower taxes, balance the budget and protect funding levels for the schools (about 50% of the budget). And the details of his brilliant plan? "Day one: Open da books."